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swar110

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Hi all,
Im just having a look at my injectors & its taken me more than an hour to get the washer(S) :eek: out of the 1st injector hole (the one at the front)
It had 2 washers wtf! - the 1st was twice the thickness of a normal washer and was on top of the original washer !!!
The bottom one was stuck in pretty well and after a search of how to extract it I tried the following as prying it out was no good at all.

I got a flat screwdriver with a tip that would fit in the hole of the washer and gently tapped the handle down with my hand, rocked it back and forth a bit pulled the washer up stuck to the tapered sides of the screwdriver.

Hope this is of use to someone !! - just thought I'd share!
now for the rest.....................! maybe tomorrow as its getting late!
 
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swar110 said:
Hi all,
Im just having a look at my injectors & its taken me more than an hour to get the washer(S) :eek: out of the 1st injector hole (the one at the front)
It had 2 washers wtf! - the 1st was twice the thickness of a normal washer and was on top of the original washer !!!
The bottom one was stuck in pretty well and after a search of how to extract it I tried the following as prying it out was no good at all.

I got a flat screwdriver with a tip that would fit in the hole of the washer and gently tapped the handle down with my hand, rocked it back and forth a bit pulled the washer up stuck to the tapered sides of the screwdriver.

Hope this is of use to someone !! - just thought I'd share!
now for the rest.....................! maybe tomorrow as its getting late!
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BERGEN Injection Engine Copper Washer Remover | eBay
 
Hi Ratty - I saw that too - woulduv been handy but it worked out ok with the screwdriver and it was 2quid from asda :)
I still cant get over the fact there were 2 washers in there and one was of oversized thickness - who knows what damage will unfold when I get the others off - tomorrow as i got rained off!
 
swar110 said:
Hi Ratty - I saw that too - woulduv been handy but it worked out ok with the screwdriver and it was 2quid from asda :)
I still cant get over the fact there were 2 washers in there and one was of oversized thickness - who knows what damage will unfold when I get the others off - tomorrow as i got rained off!
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Is the thread on the injector damaged or summit? It does sound a bit odd.:confused:
 
no apparant damage - previous owner just bunged an ordinary copper washer on top of the sealing washer - he cant have been able to get it out!
just as well im checking them :)
 
I tried that but wouldnt budge at all - just couldnt get any purchase and it was flattened completely you could only just tell that it used to be a sealing washer - completely flat ! so I would guess it was over torqued too as its only supposed to be 18 Ibft according to the book of haynes (amen)
 
couldnt get the remaining washers out either - much the same story 2 washers per injector and the wrong sizes!!!!!!!!!!!
the last ones wouldn't come out on No 4 cylinder but rummaging round the shed I found an old bolt with a tapered thread - i cleaned it up, and inserted it into the injector hole and twisted it through the nozzle gap and found it grabs the difficult copper washers very well.
 
+1 sorry for resurrecting such an old threat but before folk splash out on a professional remover. A modern bolt has a rough base at the threaded end which grabs amazingly well where the thread cut is finished. After many hours over days soaking and trying with the screwdriver a bolt with no modifications just pushed round a couple of times with my hand released my 2 stuck washers within seconds allowing the screwdriver to fish them out.
What on earth the last chap was doing I do not know..... I found copper washers, split washers, no washers.
 
ER1C said:
+1 sorry for resurrecting such an old threat but before folk splash out on a professional remover. A modern bolt has a rough base at the threaded end which grabs amazingly well where the thread cut is finished. After many hours over days soaking and trying with the screwdriver a bolt with no modifications just pushed round a couple of times with my hand released my 2 stuck washers within seconds allowing the screwdriver to fish them out.
What on earth the last chap was doing I do not know..... I found copper washers, split washers, no washers.
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Not sure what engine this is about, but with a 2.5na/td or similar I just loosen em up with a screwdriver, then I poke a pencil down the hole to pick up the washer! :)

On an old machine the washers are often all over the place. Steel washers can be none, one or two down the hole! :rolleyes:

Plant is usually even worse, as it will have been on a building site. I once removed several handfuls of gravel and a couple of old hacksaw blades from the hydraulicoil tank of a dumper truck! :eek:
 
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